Courses

    Discusses selected topics in current climatological literature. Specific themes vary. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Continuation of MATH 6210. See also MATH 6210. Prereq., MATH 6210. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

    Introduces topological and differential manifolds, fiber bundles, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, integration, Riemannian metrics, connections and curvature. Prereqs., MATH 3130 and 4320. Undergraduates must have instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Continuation of MATH 6230. Undergraduates must have instructor consent.

    Studies semi-simple Artinian rings, the Jacobson radical, group rings, representations of finite groups, central simple algebras, division rings and the Brauer group. Prereq., MATH 6130, 6140. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

    Focuses on differential geometric techniques in quantum field and string theories. Topics include spinors, Dirac operators, index theorem, anomalies, geometry of superspace, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and field theory, and nonperturbative aspects in field and string theories. Prereq., MATH 6230, PHYS 5250, or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., MATH 6240 and PHYS 7280. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Same as PHYS 6260.

    Focuses on differential geometric techniques in quantum field and string theories. Topics include spinors, Dirac operators, index theorem, anomalies, geometry of superspace, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and field theory, and nonperturbative aspects in field and string theories. Prereq., MATH 6230, PHYS 5250, or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., MATH 6240 and PHYS 7280. Same as MATH 6260.

    Studies nilpotent and solvable groups, simple linear groups, multiply transitive groups, extensions and cohomology, representations and character theory, and the transfer and its applications. Prereq., MATH 6130. Recommended prereq., MATH 6140. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

    Covers homotopy theory, spectral sequences, vector bundles, characteristic classes, K-theory and applications to geometry and physics. Prereq., MATH 6220 or instructor consent. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Studies categories and functors, abelian categories, chain complexes, derived functors, Tor and Ext, homological dimension, group homology and cohomology. If time permits, the instructor may choose to cover additional topics such as spectral sequences or Lie algebra homology and cohomology. Prereqs., MATH 6130 and 6140. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Offers interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on different special topics such as gender and war, gender and globalization, women's social movements, gender and citizenship, gender and collective memory, and cultural representations of gender and sexuality. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Discusses current issues and research in a selected area related to language use and function. Sample topics include conversational interaction, language policy, language content, and sociolinguistic variation. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Studies selected topics in philosophy of mind. Prerequisites: Restricted to Philosophy graduate students only.
    Discussions principally concerned with recent literature in organic chemistry. Required of all organic chemistry graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Reviews current critical methods and issues related to rhetorical criticism, such as contemporary theory of rhetorical criticism, continental discourse theory, and critical theory. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., COMM 5310 and 5320.

    Interpretation of depositional and diagenetic historyof sedimentary rocks as determined from thin-section studies. Prereqs., GEOL 3010, 3020, and 3430. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary sociolinguistic analysis, with special emphasis on linguistic variation, diversity and change. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Develops the theory of Lebesgue measure and the Lebesgue integral on the line, emphasizing the various notions of convergence and the standard convergence theorems. Applications are made to the classical Lp spaces. Prereq., MATH 4001. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prereqs., graduate standing, or at least one course at the 3000 level or higher in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, or psychology. No background in computer science is presumed. Same as CSCI 6402, EDUC 6504, LING 6200, and PSYC 6200. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Lect. Selected topics in synthetic organic chemistry, encompassing both methods and/or total synthesis of complex molecules. Prereqs., CHEM 5311 and graduate standing, or instructor consent.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary linguistic anthropology, with special emphasis on the ways in which culture and society emerge semiotically through language and discourse. Same as LING 6320. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Reviews current theory and research on topics such as contemporary rhetorical theory, rhetoric and public life, rhetoric as an interpretive social science, and rhetoric of social movements and political campaigns. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 5320.

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